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Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Dahoon »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #207
datfrojo wrote: post #8

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What advantages does brave have other than their weird ad replacement thing? I’ve weirdly moved to Microsoft edge from Firefox for something’s recently. Unfortunately the chrome developer tools are awful.

> Unfortunately the chrome developer tools are awful You are literally the first person I've ever heard say this. I've heard a ton of people say they want to switch to Firefox, but can't leave the Chrome dev tools behind. Mind telling us why you find Firefox dev tools superior?

Edge has better tools too.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by Dahoon »

LocalPCGuy wrote: post #221
jedberg wrote: post #140

I've been using containers on Firefox for a long time now. And I love it. But my biggest issue is Firefox performance on MacOS. The only reason it's not my primary browser is because Safari is just so much better. What I wonder is, is this just me, or does everyone have this problem?

I've literally never had someone say Safari is better. Chromium, sure...but Safari? It's like the IE of the browser world these days.

I have never head anyone say this except to state that Chrome is the new IE, which it clearly is.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by yeswecatan »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #344
shawnb576 wrote: post #176

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Agree that containers are Firefox #1 killer feature and incredibly useful.

I used to have 4 or 5 profiles for firefox for various accounts and situations and containers let me leave all that mess behind. It's pretty awesome and I wish more people knew about it. It's one of the things I bring up to privacy oriented and people who need a lot of different logins.

Is there a way to have multiple profiles open in separate windows but inly a single instance of Firefox, similar to Chrome?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jmiskovic »

mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

I just recently discovered a tip that finally made Firefox multiple windows usable. When you want to restart the browser and save tabs across all windows, you use Quit command from menu (or Ctrl+Q) and not the window X button (Alt+F4).

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by pseudalopex »

livscholes wrote: post #271
mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

Didn't know you could do this with Firefox. Thanks for the tip! Curious — have you ever heard of Shift (tryshift.com)? It pretty much does the same thing, but with everything (Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc.). I use it at work so that I don't have to sign in and out of all my Google accounts. It's pretty unreal.

Welcome to HN. Is this you?[1] You should disclose your job is promoting the company you mentioned if it is. I hope it isn't or you just forgot. Astroturfing erodes trust between people and makes the world worse.

[1] https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/author/olivia-scholes

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Post by breakingcups »

smichel17 wrote: post #301
hannibalhorn wrote: post #278

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tor provides a socks proxy, which you can assign to a container easy enough w/ the container proxy addon.

Thank you, I'll look in to this!

Be careful doing this though, there's a reason Tor Browser exists and it is because it's very hard to do anonimity over Tor right on a default browser.

Granted, Tor tries to upstream as much as it reasonably can to FF, but there's still large differences in defaults that could give away (some bits of) your identity.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by kbenson »

Mandatum wrote: post #191
mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

Also adding to this - you can set up container-specific proxies with "Container proxy" addon. This is great for when you want to ensure your connection is going over a private network, for instance if you have a regular torrent website (or porn or whatever) - you can configure it to automatically open in a container, like this Facebook addon - but when it opens - it will only connect to the endpoint over a proxy. If…

Container proxy plus a putty socks tunnel over SSH through a pinhole firewall rules to my work linux system is my preferred poor man's work VPN. One main benefit being that allowing the non-VPN traffic to handle the video meeting works way better.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by kbenson »

jmiskovic wrote: post #374
mmcclure wrote: post #34

I use Firefox multi-account containers[1] extensively, it's honestly the primary reason I use Firefox these days. The big win for me is that I _hate_ having to use the Google account switcher, so I basically set up a container for each Gmail account (work, personal, old email, etc). The nice bonus feature is you can have certain sites default to containers. I had a paid YouTube account for a while, for example, so ha…

I just recently discovered a tip that finally made Firefox multiple windows usable. When you want to restart the browser and save tabs across all windows, you use Quit command from menu (or Ctrl+Q) and not the window X button (Alt+F4).

Ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed window (with all the tabs it had) just like ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed tab. Try it a few times after closing multiple firefox windows with multiple tabs each if they don't come up automatically on start.

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by jhrmnn »

sumedh wrote: post #322
Mandatum wrote: post #203

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> but the official plugin for managing them was awful I wish we'd stop being so hard on products. It's likely those developers read these comments. Having babies be called ugly by your peers is rough, actively trying to be more respectful on the internet leads to a nicer industry. EDIT: Just to clarify - I'm not saying your intention was disrespectful. I've written many comments similar to this, and continue to do so…

They should not take it personally. The UX/dev people at Firefox should take that as a constructive criticism.

Since when is constructive criticism expressed in words like “awful”?

Re: Facebook Container for Firefox

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Post by ComodoHacker »

kbenson wrote: post #378
jmiskovic wrote: post #374

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I just recently discovered a tip that finally made Firefox multiple windows usable. When you want to restart the browser and save tabs across all windows, you use Quit command from menu (or Ctrl+Q) and not the window X button (Alt+F4).

Ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed window (with all the tabs it had) just like ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed tab. Try it a few times after closing multiple firefox windows with multiple tabs each if they don't come up automatically on start.

You mean "ctrl-shift-T will reopen a closed tab".
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